1894
March 13
(No 3)
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo
  A little after sunset the Carrs took us to a place when
they had seen some Goatsuckers flying about in
the twilight a few evenings since. It proved to be a
stretch of the public road, broad, straight, covered
with a carpet of beautiful green turf, bordered on
one side by a cacao plantation with a deserted house
surrounded by bananas, on the other by a sloping hill
side covered with dense primeval forest. It must be
a beautiful spot at anytime but in the soft evening
light it was simply enchanting. The Goatsuckers were
three - two of them flying back and forth along the
road, usually skimming close over the turf but
occasionally rising 20 or 30 ft, straight up after an insect. They
turned quite regularly when they reached the end
of the woods, into which they also plunged several
times. Their flight was very swift and, as a rule,
direct. They flapped their wings steadily and quickly with
a motion unlike that of any of our Goatsuckers' and
more like that of a large bat but the flight was
more firm and direct than [delete]any bats'[/delete] that of any
bat with which I am familiar. When they took 
to the woods they usually gain a succession of
short, clear whistles probably from some perch on
the ground or the branch of a tree although this
is merely a surmise[?] on our past. We shot both
birds and found them to be males of Lurocalis
semitorquatus (Gn.)[?]. They are curious-looking Goatsuckers
intermediate in both form, color and behavior, as it seemed
to us, between Chordata[?] and Antrostomus.
[margin]A strange
Goatsucker
(Lurocalis)[/margin]